when I was 20 at Wimbledon in 2001, my idol Pete Sampras
ever crossed his Wilson Pro Staff with that of the young and inexperienced Roger Federer, Swiss Basel not yet twenty. Seemed to be having a walk for health Pistol Pete, unbeaten on grass in London from as many as 31 races and started toward his eighth statement, the U.S. had won the British Grand Slam for 7 times, nobody had ever done to do the same, even Borg even McEnroe, Connors ... That day I had not even a start. I did not even subscribe to Stream, which broadcast the race live on TV, and on teletext in the evening when I saw the screen that read "Federer Sampras b. 76 57 64 67 75" I had a shot to the heart: possible that my idol has lost a little-known Swiss hopefuls? How can it be successful? Sampras was not feeling well? The next day I saw on the Internet the replica of that challenge and I knew many things, the court had just discovered the new phenomenon of tennis mondiale.Quel day nobody in the stands of the Centre Court had noticed, but had just made tennis history recently. Many people believed that it was not only the first round between the two artists of the racket, and that Sampras would have hastened to take his personal revenge. Unfortunately for all tennis fans was not so: Pete Sampras and Roger Federer would not have ever dealt with ...
... November 2007: more than six years have passed and the world of tennis has changed everything. Sampras retired at the end of 2002, after winning his 14th Grand Slam title in New York (a record that still stands), scrambled the odds against Andre Agassi in the final. After some months of sterile domain of Lleyton Hewitt and Andy Roddick to the site of the former number one was taken from that very shy and awkward young Swiss, who looked so temperamentally to Pete early in his unique (?) Career. That boy now has 26 years, my age. E'numero a world of unchallenged since January 2004 and counts among his many trophies, five Wimbledon, four U.S. Open, Australian Open third and fourth ATP Masters. Only one player has done better than him since he was born tennis, and his answers to the name of that Federer beat Sampras in London six years ago in their only official challenge. Yeah, officer. Why Pete and Roger, that only time cruel did not want to address more than once, have deceived the age and different ages, meeting again. E'successo in Seoul, South Korea, and it happened yesterday. The occasion? A performance that I had the good fortune to see on the internet and saw that the Swiss still prevail, then more sharply this time, with a score of 64 63. Sampras is physically a different person, overweight, with short hair shows more of its 36 years. Federer could be snubbed, could rightly admit to being the greatest of all because in the future will surpass Sampras also in numbers. Could avoid these performances from which only he could lose face, even losing to a player who retired for years now. But it does not. Indeed, evidence has always admired Roger Pistol Pete, you see how it looks in the press conference. It's like if the current king of tennis would remain in contemplation, admired by that figure, for those locks blacks now in decline. "It was the greatest, the greatest of all" continues to repeat; "Very soon I will overcome, and I'll be happy because he's a pure talent, and I'm happy that he is really to improve my record," the answer to Sampras. The two will face off twice more in a few days: Tuesday 22 November in Kuala Lumpur (Italian 13 hours) and Saturday 24th November in Macao (7 am Italian). People who subscribe to Sky or loves tennis like me take advantage of it and tune on Sky Sport3 to attend the second and third act of what is the challenge between two players who made tennis a great sport, "the Challenge of the Kings "I call it .... Just look at that rectangular field and look carefully at those two gentlemen standing on that field, there are 26 Grand Slam tournaments and ATP Masters 7 ... the tennis history is here, I hope that never sets ... Elze
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